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Answer Title

Answer to Problem #6

Category

Oddball Chords / Riffs

Jeff's Guitar's tuning

Standard E, A, D, G, B, E

Guitar Jeff used

Single coil pickup Stratocaster sound

Key of

Effects Jeff was using if any

Heavy Reverb, no other effects.

Solution notes

The trick with this one was to pick out the big drone chords. These are basically power chord shapes with 3 or 4 open strings added in. These chords are usually not worth naming as because of the open strings they have huge long names like, B6suspended2flat13 and things like that. LOL Usually they don't conform to any theory.

These chords are used a lot in rock music. Not necessarily the ones I used here but I mean drone chords in general. They are not as daunting to figure out as some would lead you to believe. Chords like this can be heard in V.H.'s Little Guitars, and Poundcake just to name a couple but other artists have used them as well for their stuff including, Metallica, and Dokken etc etc.

The trick here was to find the root notes and deduce the rest. Also to remember what these sound like. Remember what the open strings ringing out in these chords sound like so when and if you hear them again you will instantly know what the player is doing. Deduction and memory play a huge roll in learning anything by ear. You must remember and learn from things you already know.

My guitar teacher used to say, and I quote, "We're only as good a guitarist as our past experience allows us to be." This is a very true statement. It's one of those, it's not how much you know but what you can do with what you do know sort of statements. And I can speak from experience when I say I've drawn on things I've learned over the years to get me out Jamming "jams" many a time. LOL

Video Lesson

"Actual" TABS for the problem

Main chords in play

E__0___0___0___0____0________________________________
B__0___0___0___0____0________________________________
G__0___0___0___0____0________________________________
D__4___5___4___0____0________________________________
A__2___3___3___5____3________________________________
E______________3____1________________________________

Actual Piece

E__0_0__0_0__0_0__5h_______________0_0__0_0___0_________________
B__0_0__0_0__0_0______5h___________0_0__0_0___0_________________
G__0_0__0_0__0_0___________________0_0__0_0___0_let ring__________
D__4_4__4_4__5_5___________________4_4__4_4___5_________________
A__2_2__2_2__3_3___________________2_2__2_2___3_________________
E____________________________0_0x_______________________________

Single note riffing

Note a chord change up comes into play here on one of the chords.

Slight palm mute throughout.

E________________________________________________________
B________________________________________________________
G___________________________________0____________________
D____4__0___4__0__________4__0___4____4__0_______________
A__2______2______2__0___3______3_________________________
E________________________________________________________

E________________________________________
B________________________________________
G________________________________________
D____4__0___4__0_________________________
A__2______2______2__0____________________
E________________________________________

Ending Chord hits

E__0_0__0_0________________0_0__0_0________________________
B__0_0__0_0___0____________0_0__0_0________________________
G__0_0__0_0___0____________0_0__0_0_______0________________
D__4_4__4_4___0_~~_________4_4__4_4_____0___0______________
A__3_3__3_3___5____________3_3__3_3___3_______3_3__________
E_____________3______0_0x_____________1_________1~_________